He left, and the domestic movies lost their real warriors.
On July 1, 2007, the news of Yang Dechang’s death came to Cai Qin’s ear from the United States.
It took her a day to receive the bad news, and then she blurted out:
"Yang Dechang! How can you leave like this? "
I didn’t officially start making movies until I was 34 years old.
He left behind several immortal masterpieces and two controversial love stories.
Yang Dechang died of colon cancer before his 60th birthday.
An artist will be widely concerned only when he is born and dies.
So immediately there was a documentary "Goodbye, Yang Dechang".
However, few artists, like Yang Dechang, appeared a documentary about him ten years after his death-Ten Years, Goodbye to Yang Dechang.
Yang Dechang’s temper is notoriously smelly in the circle.
However, after his death, all the people who worked with him or had deep friendship with him had deep sadness and nostalgia for him.
Today, almost 15 years after Yang Dao’s death, people can still mention his name intermittently.
Brighter summer day, the representative work, has been replayed overseas.
What kind of magic does he have?
The twinkling star in the film industry seems to be still hanging high in the night sky of many fans and friends-
Yang dechang
Thirty-year-old boy’s ambition
When he was young, Yang Dechang worked as a programmer in the United States for seven years.
Even if he is rich and has food and clothing, he still can’t give up movies.
Over the age of 30, he resolutely returned to Taiwan and ran into Zhang Aijia, a noble man.
After meeting Yang Dechang for the first time, Zhang Aijia decided to give him one episode of his series.
Yang Dechang began his career as a director.
It was a stormy time, and Taiwan Province movies were a blowout time.
Directors have been confessed to the sky, and Yang Dechang’s temper is getting worse and worse. The circle is almost famous.
Of course, Yang Dechang also knows how to pay for his temper.
Du Duzhi, the recording engineer who worked with him for a long time, was really angry with his strange temper once and ignored him for three days.
Like children quarreling, two people do their own things in the crew, and when they intersect, they just work and don’t talk.
Finally, Yang Dechang couldn’t stand Du Duzhi’s cold reception, so he found a chance to speak on his own initiative.
Just like when we were students, children quarreled, full of youthful spirit.
Perhaps it is this youthful spirit that makes Yang Dechang’s belated creative career still full of vigor.
After establishing his own image style,
Yang Dechang is almost reclusive, only focusing on creation, and not hanging out in the film circle.
They say it’s always easier to take one more road. But he has no interest in these social activities.
He only hopes that he can make a good film, and what resources are not resources has nothing to do with him.
He put his creation into his life, and all the joys and sorrows of life started with movies and fell because of movies.
Jiang Xiuqiong, a former actress, said that she could hardly see the director enjoying life.
However, in Uncle Ba’s view, this is the way Yang Dechang enjoys life.
Until the last moment of his life, he still had a brush in his hand.
Thinking about the split of his animated film.
His death seems a little lonely to outsiders, because many good friends are not around.
But maybe it’s just what he wanted.
His insight into life made him know too much about human nature.
Yang Dechang left the United States for the last time before his death. He was seriously ill and wanted to see his good friend Du Duzhi for the last time.
On the phone, he could easily ask Du Duzhi out. Just say that I am ill.
However, at the moment when the phone was connected, he was very angry.
Du Duzhi didn’t know that Yang Dechang was ill until he hung up the phone.
Because Yang Dechang didn’t want busy Du Duzhi to be kidnapped by morality because of his illness.
If you are busy with your own business, please forget me. If you happen to be free, come and see me.
This is Yang Dechang’s character.
Death is just a trivial matter in life. How can creation be important? He does this to himself, as well as to his friends.
An unprecedented movie madman
What I mentioned above is just some of his personal charm.
Yang Dechang’s creation is unprecedented.
As soon as he started filming, he was favored by three major international film festivals.
Behind the constant nomination for prizes are actually extreme and unrepeatable creative methods.
Yang Dechang often embarrassed his producers. When he was filming Mahjong, Yang Dechang had to change people when he was patting them.
Even if the other party is a person who has talked well and is optimistic, even if he still makes good friends with the producer.
The reason is not that the actor is so bad, but that Yang Dechang saw a stranger and thought he was better.
As a result, all the plots were re-filmed, and the producer had to make amends with money and human feelings.
When filming "A Day at the Beach".
Yang Dechang and Du Duzhi, two congenial friends, are trying to get a sound of stepping on a board that meets the expectations in their minds.
They deleted the sound recorded at the scene and really got a board in the recording studio.
Step on it again and again until there is a sound that both people are satisfied with.
This is only the tip of the iceberg, and at least Du Duzhi enjoys it.
When it was time to shoot childhood friends, Yang Dechang even dragged him to Yangmingshan to record the sound of cars running by in the early morning.
No matter how unsafe the mountain road is at night, I don’t even let my friends sleep, just because I suddenly had a flash of light, which is really crazy.
Of course, Yang Dechang didn’t just treat others like this. He was more cruel to himself.
When Chen Bowen first came to Yang Dechang’s house, he was impressed by Yang Dechang.
At that time, Yang Dechang was working on a script for brighter summer day.
He built a big closet with a whole whiteboard at home.
On the whiteboard, there are many pictures of people’s relationships and biographies.
Yang Dechang wants to see as long as he wakes up every day, think when he is awake, and stop thinking about it when he is asleep.
The most devastating thing was Chen Xiwen, who worked as a producer for Yang Dechang when filming "One by One".
According to Yang Dechang’s request, extras are not allowed when shooting a group play.
He wants a living person.
Living talents are vivid. In Yang Dechang’s eyes, extras are just props for wearing suits. He doesn’t need any of these old greaseballs.
Moreover, he is not letting ordinary people perform, but has a plan to mobilize non-professional actors.
When Zhang zhen first joined the group, in order to make a scene with low mood, Yang Dechang gave Zhang zhen a scolding as soon as they met, then put him in a dark room and asked him to think about it.
Zhang zhen said that he was scared at that time, and later learned that he was filming.
These crazy moves will hardly appear in today’s creation.
We can imagine that now, when the director of a film makes a big scene and says that he doesn’t want to use extras, the whole crew will complain.
And what kind of accusations will be made against that extreme way of training.
Those benchmark works of Taiwan’s new movies can only become unprecedented under this madman’s shooting method.
The afterheat left in the film industry
In addition to providing many valuable experiences in film shooting and life philosophies in works for later generations,
Yang Dechang also provides a foundation for the future prosperity of the film industry in Taiwan Province.
In the barren years, Taiwan Province didn’t even have a synchronous recording device.
After boasting to his good friend Du Duzhi that he could get a handsome fee, he asked Du Duzhi to list the equipment he needed.
I was behind my back, crustily skin of head, and borrowed money to buy the first set of synchronous recording equipment in Taiwan Province.
This money is enough to buy a suite.
Du Duzhi said that it was with this equipment that he became a first-class sound engineer in the film industry.
As long as it’s to make a movie, it’s worth losing everything.
With this reckless madness, Yang Dechang saved his own team in a few years.
Zhang zhen said in an interview that it was because of Yang Dechang’s charisma and the centripetal force of the entire Yang Dechang cast that he decided to become an actor.
He enjoys the feeling that a group of people work hard together to do a good job.
After the filming of brighter summer day.
Yang Dechang does not stick to one pattern to drop talents, and he has an eye for the talent of Jiang Xiuqiong, the second sister actor who is not a director.
Keep her around and want to train her to be a director.
He is always full of hope for young people and younger generations, and tries his best to find these talents and encourage them.
Facing the invitation of Berlin Film Festival, he paid one million yuan for himself and took young filmmakers abroad.
He said that although he is too poor to pay for food, he must let the young people who have just made movies know.
Taiwan Province’s films have lost their dignity, but in Berlin, at international film festivals, their enthusiasm will let you know that making movies is worthwhile!
He did this selflessly, just to cultivate the motivation of the younger generation to make movies.
Recently, there was a documentary film directed by Xu Anhua called Make a Good Movie.
These five words look easy, but they are actually more difficult than going to heaven.
Today’s movies, as Yang Dechang said, are not highly regarded by many people, even the creators themselves are not serious.
How many people like Yang Dechang who really want to make some exquisite works of art for posterity are left?
Chinese films are increasingly heading for the abyss of business, while those who insist on creating are all struggling on the edge of poverty.
Those once sharp and brave creators, after becoming famous, all slowly embraced the mainstream.
There is no one who, like Yang Dechang, swears at human suffering and never compromises.
What kind of mood is it to lose Yang Dechang in movies?
Maybe, as Cai Qin said,
Yang Dechang, how could you leave like this?
Self-portrait of Yang Dechang
